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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Who Makes Up the "Islamic Emirate"?, by Thierry Meyssan

While Western public opinion is fed information about the constitution
of a purported international coalition to fight against the "Islamic
Emirate", the latter changes shape discreetly. Its principal officers
are no longer Arab, but Georgian and Chinese. For Thierry Meyssan, this
mutation shows that NATO ultimately intends to use the "Islamic Emirate"
in Russia and in China. Therefore, both countries must act now against
the jihadists before they return to sow chaos in their countries of
origin.

The "Islamic Emirate" initially displayed its Arab
origin. This organization sprang from "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" who fought not
the US invaders, but Iraqi Shiites. It became the "Islamic Emirate in
Iraq" and the "Islamic Emirate in Iraq and the Levant." In October 2007,
the US Army seized 606 records of foreign members of this organization
near Sinjar. The records were inventoried and examined by experts from
the Military Academy at West Point.
However, a few days after the seizure, Emir al-Baghdadi said his
organization included only 200 fighters and they were all Iraqis. This
lie is comparable to that of other terrorist organizations in Syria who
say they enrol only incidentally a few foreigners, while the Syrian Arab
Army estimated at at least 250,000 the number of foreign jihadists who
fought in Syria over the past three years. Moreover, Caliph Ibrahim (the
new name of Amir al-Baghdadi) now claims that his organization is
composed largely of foreigners and that Syrian territory is no longer
for the Syrians and the Iraqi territory is no longer for Iraqis, but
they are for his jihadists.
According to records seized in Sinjar, 41% of foreign terrorists
members of the "Islamic Emirate of Iraq" were Saudi nationals, 18.8%
were Libyans, and only 8.2% were Syrians. If these figures are related
to the population of each country, the people of Libya provided
proportionately 2 times more fighters than that of Saudi Arabia and five
times more than that of Syria.
Regarding Syrian jihadists, their origin was dispersed in the
country, but 34, 3% came from the city of Deir ez-Zor, which since the
withdrawal of the "Islamic Emirate" of Raqqa, became the capital of the
Caliphate.
In Syria, Deir ez-Zor has the distinction of being populated
predominantly by Sunni Arabs organized into tribes, and by Kurdish and
Armenian minorities. However, until now, the United States has been only
able to destroy states in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, that is to say,
countries where the population is organised into tribes. They have
failed elsewhere. From this point of view, Deir ez-Zor in particular and
the North East of Syria in general can therefore potentially be
conquered, but not the rest of the country, as seen over the past three
years.
For the past two weeks, a purge is affecting Maghreb officers. Thus,
Tunisians who took the Raqqa military airport on August 25 were arrested
for disobedience, judged and executed by their superiors. The "Islamic
Emirate" means to put its Arab fighters in their place and promote
Chechen officers kindly provided by the Georgian secret services.
Another category of jihadist has emerged: the Chinese. Since June,
the United States and Turkey have transported hundreds of Chinese
fighters and their families to northeastern Syria. Some of them
immediately became officers. They are mostly Uighurs, Chinese from the
Peoples Republic, but Sunni Muslims and speakers of Turk.
Therefore, it is clear that, ultimately, the "Islamic Emirate" will
expand its operations to Russia and to China, both countries are its
ultimate targets.
We will definitely see a new NATO publicity campaign: its aviation
will push the jihadists out of Iraq and leave them to settle in Deir
ez-Zor. The CIA will provide money, weapons, ammunition and information
to "revolutionary Syrian moderates" (sic) of the FSA, which will then
change hats for use under the banner of the "Islamic Emirate", as has
been the case since May of 2013.

At the time, Senator John McCain came to Syria illegally to meet the
chiefs of staff of the FSA. According to the photograph then distributed
to attest to the meeting, the staff included a certain Abu Youssef,
officially sought by the US State Department under the name Abu Du’a, in
reality the current Caliph Ibrahim. Thus, the same man was - both and
at the same time - a moderate leader in the FSA and an extremist leader
in the "Islamic Emirate".
With this information, one can appreciate at its true value the
document presented to the Security Council on July 14 by the Syrian
Ambassador, Bashar Jaafari. This is a letter from the commander-in-chief
of the FSA, Salim Idriss and dated January 17, 2014. It reads: "I
hereby inform you that this ammunition sent by the chiefs of staff to
leaders of the revolutionary military councils of the Eastern Region
must be distributed in accordance with what was agreed upon: two-thirds
to the warlords of the el-Nosra front, the remaining third to be
distributed between the military and the revolutionary elements in the
fight against the bands of IEIL (Islamic Emirate in Iraq and the
Levant). We thank you for sending us the proof of delivery of all
ammunition, specifying the quantities and qualities, duly signed by the
leaders and warlords in person, so we can forward them to the Turkish
and French partners. "In other words, two NATO powers (Turkey and
France) have delivered ammunition for two thirds to the Al-Nosra Front
(classified as a member of al-Qaeda by the Security Council) and one
third to the FSA so that it can fight against the "Islamic Emirate",
headed by one of its senior officers. In fact, the FSA has disappeared
on the ground and the munitions were therefore intended for two-thirds
to al-Qaeda and one third to the "Islamic Emirate".
With this dual role device, NATO will be able to continue to launch
its hordes of jihadists against Syria while claiming to fight them.
However, when NATO has installed chaos everywhere in the Arab world,
including its Saudi ally, it will turn the "Islamic Emirate" against the
two great developing powers, Russia and China. That is why these two
powers should intervene now and nip in the bud this private army being
constituted and trained by NATO in the Arab world. Otherwise, Moscow and
Beijing will soon have to confront it on their own soil.